'The tide goes out on pediatric gender medicine' - Atlantic article

[ThreeLocusts]

Hell fellow gender non-believers, does anybody have a link to the full article with the above title, by Helen Lewis, published recently in The Atlantic magazine?

Where I live, media push-back against gender ideology has only just begun and remains rare and timid. The therapeutic establishment is either captured or spineless. I hope to catch the attention of a couple of therapists with this article. Gotta keep pushing.

Thanks in advance!

Here it is, hope it helps

archive.ph/FJpmy

I'll give this a read. Thanks!

Thanks @QAOPspaceman !

Olson Kennedy is a ghoul ( account by a young de-transitioner in 2024)

https://tennesseestar.com/justice/california-doctor-sued-for-having-minors-breasts-removed-could-change-states-radical-reputation-for-transitioning-children/rachel-alexander/2024/12/09

Helen Lewis is a funny one, isn't she? Most of the article is a damning indictment of gender medicine and then she finishes with:

"The story of youth gender medicine is one of good intentions, arrogance, fear, and polarization. It is also an avoidable tragedy."

Good intentions? Really?

A paper by Ohlson Kennedy as she explains what she says happens when a child is given puberty blockers:

growinguptransgender.com/tag/jo-olson-kennedy/

I suspect they were good intentions initially. But it took a frighteningly long time to admit the end result was actually harm.

Presumably the intention of many parents was good. And once a dogma becomes established as being ‘the one true way’, good intentions lead to hell with sad predictability.

From the tennessee star article

The complaint noted that the desistance rate, or the rate at which transgender children decide to revert back to their birth gender, is 80 to 90 percent.

I guess California data, but flies against 'there is no data'

This is a great article, thank you for spotting it, OP, and QAOPspaceman the the readable link.